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Here is a short article with advice for what to do if you find a baby bird or one that appears to be sick or injured. Bird rescue article Please feel free to post here if you have questions or need more help.

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Hi, folks- new to forum. Tried to post a help-with-ID query this AM, can't find it now. Just re-posted the same topic, can't find it either. Thanks. Rich Saunders

Welcome to Whatbird! As Bigfoot alludes to, first-time posts are delayed until a moderator has a chance to look at them and verify that they're not spam. Sometimes our (wonderful) mods are busier than others.

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They're smileys and various other pics that originated in Japan. I'm not sure if they're on Android phones (they weren't when I had one years ago) but on iPhones/iPads/iPods, you can use them in any kind of message.

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I still get the error frequently (most recently last night). It seems to happen mostly when I am finished reading a thread and click on another forum to check it out. Last night it was when I had finished reading page 1 of a thread and clicked on page 2.

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I don't know if it's related, but loading pages on WB outside of the forum can be very slow. I don't think I've ever gotten the driver error message like I do when using the forum, but don't hold me to that.

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The repairs were this morning, I want errors from after I posted my first message.

BF

BF, I just got the database error now.

"There appears to be an error with the database.

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